@Charles - good point.  Normally, I am a "go against the grain" kind of guy, but in this case I wanted to see what would be most acceptable and least confusing in the blogging community.

@ Penny - interesting insight.  Makes sense.  I will always try to keep my RRR's interesting and full of useful links.

For what it's worth, I usually look over roundups more carefully than carnivals because I know the blog author has actually read and approved of the articles.  While carnivals are at the discretion of the host and a couple of them are strictly limited to a certain number of links, most of them are not.  The hosts will include just about anything that is relevant and not offensive or otherwise against the carnival rules.

Definitely check out Suba's post at Broke Professionals for an overview on Carnivals.  Make sure you read the rules of the carnivals themselves - do they require a link back?  How quickly?  Can you submit the article to multiple carnivals?  How old can the article be?  Stuff like that - and also, make sure it fits in a category, haha.

Tell me what I can do to improve it.  Hopefully, next week I will also have a section for carnivals that featured my posts.  Trying to submit to a bunch of carnivals this weekend.

I've tried to add a bit of my voice to the beginning and end so it's more than just a roundup - you know, something you've thought about and it doesn't fit the theme of the site (like internet memes or even site updates/announcements something).  At the end I usually dig into one of the posts I highlighted.

And yes - I save everything in an email draft at the beginning of the week, then just come back and highlight them for the Weekender.

Be creative and make yours  different.  There are no rules, just opinions.

I store the articles that pique my interest in a spreadsheet.  I just create a new tab each month.

One way I keep track of great articles throughout the week is to clip them in Evernote.

At first, I wondered how they remember everything they've read all week, then go back and create links for all of it.  Then it hit me, duh!  The easiest way to do this is to create a new document at the beginning of the week, and add to it throughout the week as you read through other blogs.  I want to start doing something like this on my blog, but have one question...

Would it be OK to call my weekly roundup a carnival?  Obviously it is not a traditional carnival, as in nobody submits their posts to be included.  But the appearance of my roundup post will be very similar to a carnival.  I was thinking about calling it something like, "Carnival of Random Ramblings," since my site is RamblingFever.com.  If this would be frowned upon, I guess I could go with, "Roundup of Random Ramblings."  Any thoughts?